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Normal College Students Online Social Support Affect The Mechanism Of Swb

Posted on:2013-02-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y S JingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330374962245Subject:Applied Psychology
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With the development and popularization at full speed of Internet network, college students have become a big Internet use groups. Their average age between18and22years old, is still in the physical and psychological stages of maturing, personality and constantly improve and perfect. With the growing penetration of the Internet into their daily learning and life process, physiological and psychological development of network on college students has had a great impact. In the network space, they can achieve interpersonal communication and interaction, and realize the information transmission, the emotional communication, and the exchange of material resources, further to the development of social relations, acquiring social support. In this study the social support will be defined as social support network, which based on the virtual space in communication. People achieve the identity and belonging gains in the exchange of emotion and information, goods and materials in the process of exchange by understanding, respecting.Psychologists say, people who have good experience of social support will have higher subjective well-being, life satisfaction, positive emotions and low negative emotions. Because the social support can provide people with material and information services, increasing people's own belonging, and improving the sense of self-esteem and self-confidence. Then, will the online social support acquired in the network space through the interpersonal produce the same effect for the subjective well-being? Based on this, this research probes into normal university students' online social support on mechanism of the effect of the subjective well-being.The research used the online social support questionnaire, subjective well-being questionnaire self-esteem questionnaire and self-control questionnaire to survey for two normal universities of850students in shaanxi province, with spss and Amos software analysis to explore the online social support's mechanisms of the effect of the subjuecting well-being in nomal universities. Research findings:(1) The online social support of college students was in the secondary level as a whole, and the dimension scores from high to low in order was information support, emotional support, members of the society support, and instrumental support.(2) The online social support and factors of college students was partially influenced by profession, grade, gender, the time and the number of Internet use, but not the age of Internet use.(3) The online social support of college students had a significant effect on subjective well-being, at the same time the dimension of online social support on subjective indicators of contribution was different. The specific performance was that information and emotional support to overall subjective well-being's prediction was different and the predictive effect of emotional support was greater than the information support; The members of the society support and emotional support for prediction of life satisfaction and positive emotions were different, and the specific perfomances were both that, the predictive effect of members of the society support was greater than the emotional support. In terms of negative emotions, there is no significant difference between the various dimensions.(4) Self-esteem and self-control in online social support and subjective well-being of college students played a parial mediating role.Conclusions this study which supportted that the Internet had a positive impact on Internet users view and riched the content about Internet use behavior research in the field of psychology, had a great theoretical significance of psychology. On the other hand, enhancing public recognition of students'use of the Internet, it can change some one-sided understanding of the focus on the negative effects of the Internet. In practice, the research conclusions accordingly recommended:healthly, reasonably under the premise of using the Internet, universities should provide students with more easy Internet access and benefit Internet environment. This has a positive impact effective on physical and mental health of college students.
Keywords/Search Tags:college student, online social support, subject well-being, self-esteem, self-control
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